Instacast 5: Great App Now Even Better Review

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Great App Now Even BetterThe iOS 7 update made everything better. The fluidity, the management, the updating mechanism (not the iOS 7 API, but the visual implementation), and especially especially the Now Playing view are all better than ever, and when I look at other podcast apps I see on the App Store I'm surprised at how much better Instacast is.
Specifically, the fact that Now-Playing controls are custom-colored by album art makes me very very happy. There's about 5% of time or less that the chosen color doesn't feel gut-level perfect, but even that 5% works aesthetically. For example, This American Life's album art is white background, blue text, red emphasis text, and the Instacast controls are sort of a dark purple instead of the blue or red. Still--it's a hue-matched purple, which doesn't look off. I wouldn't be surprised if this improved soon.
In previous versions of this review, this is where I complained about the "Up Next" playlist. Now I've figured it out and I love it. Hold-tap on an episode and it can be added to the list. This is fast and easy. Now I don't have the wrong podcast play just because it happened to come out chronologically in between other episodes. I've upped my rating accordingly, from 4 to 5 stars. My bad.

UnfortunateI’m not sure what happened with this release, but the update has made syncing between devices much worse than it has ever been. Nothing stays sync’d anymore and the subscriptions on my iPad are completely gone.

Great UpdateThe last update fixed my main issues with the app (disable continues playback, quicker access to unplayed content and better sync). Best podcast app on the market today. Keep up the great work!

Now it's a messThe upgrade for iOS 7 is just a wreck.
It crashes a lot. The interface is so laggy on startup that you can't tell if it's working or not. I can't figure out how to control the number of copies of each podcast are kept on the phone.
I was happily using 3.x of this app, until they (apparently) rushed this one out the door for iOS 7. I use it every day, but I'm going to experiment with some other apps while they get this working.